John Curth and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband John Curth ¹

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Wife Elizabeth [Unk] ¹

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1 M John Yost Kurth ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Yost Curth,2 3 John Joseph Kort 4
           Born: 16 Nov 1737 - Biedenbach, Westphalia, Prussia 1
     Christened: 24 Nov 1737 1
           Died: 22 Nov 1827 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Brush Creek Cemetery, near Manor Station, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Margaret Kemmerer (1751-1828) 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Curth

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It is believed that this family is of French origin and that members thereof, either Protestants or Reformed church believers, sought shelter in the western provinces of Germany, others finding refuge in Great Britain and Holland.

From extracts from the Congregational Records of the Evangelical Congregation of Ferndorf, District Synod of Siegen, Province of Westphalia, in Prussia, supplemented by a letter from Frederick Loos, a descendant of a sister of John Yost Kurth, the following information of the German generations of the Cort family is gleaned: To John Kurth and Elizabeth, his wife, of Biedenbach, was born a son-John Frederick-June 9, 1701. This son, John Frederick, son of John Kurth, of Lohe, was married in the church at Ferndorf, October 10, 1726, to Marie Gertrude, daughter of John Seltzer, church elder. To this couple the following children were born: Catherine, born in Fellinghausen, July 1, 1727; Anna Maria, February 13, 1729; Hans Henry, November 7, 1731; Maria Agnes, October 29, 1735; John Yost, November 6, 1737, of previous mention, his sponsor was John Yost Hofer, assistant judge of both parishes, Ferndorf and Crombach, his day of baptism, November 24, 1737; Anna Juliana, born April 6, 1742; Maria Catherine, born January 6, 1746. Marie Gertrude, wife of John Frederick Kurth, died in Inkernhess, April 26, 1752, aged fifty-seven years and three weeks. Juliana, daughter of John Frederick Kurth, died in Inkernhess, April 30, 1755, aged thirteen years and three weeks. This concludes all mention of the name of John Frederick Kurth in the church records. [GPHWP, 180]

The first American ancestor was from Nassau Siegen, Westphalia, and came to America in 1758. After living for a time in Hagerstown, Maryland, where he married, he moved on across the mountains to Westmoreland County. His family was often driven by Indians from their homestead on the Youghiogheny River to a blockhouse for refuge. [PAH, 158]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1003.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 703.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 91.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 72.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1004.